The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-11-10

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ford Mills, if it would lead up to annexation;
Albert Moore, North Arson; F. A. Foster,
lumber, noulton; Enoch Coilsens. merchant
kennebunkport; Editor Drisko, OF the Machias
Union. The Portland men favorng recpro-
city or commercial union are: President Bla-
bon and Secretary Rich, of the Board of Trade !;
Durham 4 Morrill,, canning industry; J. H.
Shaw, of the firm of Deering, Milken & Co.,
dry goods; c. b. Narney, flour; l.. S. Wyman.
Among those opposed to union are Secretary
Written, of the Fishing Exchange: Hon. Fred
Atwood, agricultural implements. Winterport:
Hon. j. P. Donworth. Houlton, the latter be-
leving that it would check immigration TO the
State. \ number who offer general objections
think that for Maine and especially for Port
land it would be beneficial and create BOOM
THE INSURANCE QUESTION.
The Lewiston Gazette is complaining that
the excellent system of water works in that
city. among the best i'll New England. accom-
pushes little in the way of low insurance rates.
1t claims that Lewiston's insurance rates are
too high anyway in proportion to the average
fire loss. \ committee of the Board of Trade
was appointed some time ago to look into the
matter of insurance rates in that city with a
view to getting Il reduction. but the Gazette
hears of nothing done. If rates are kept way
up, while the protection from fire is good, cit-
zens may well consider the alvisability of tax
ing their own risk. In the aggregate it would
be lots of money in the peoples pockets. Bath
property owners do not propose to be triileti
with i'll this matter, and now that we have a
superior water system, with which we can
stop almost any fire in its incipiency, insurance
rates here must drop materially, or the COM
panies will be likely to experience decided
shrinkage in their amount of business in this
locality. There is growing confidence in our
water system and in our ability to check the
progress of fire, and Bath people may well feel
no little degree of independence toward the IN
,i,,nti I}nf1,
TIE BLUE HILL WOMAN AND THE BURGLAR.
Mrs. Charles Harding. residing on the sedsc-
wick road about mile from Bluehill village,
says that one night recently. she was awakened
about II O'Clock by noise on the outside. IIav-
ing no other company than two or three small
children. she sprang out of bed just in season
to see man cndeavoring to gain an entrance
by the window. Selling club and Il butchers
knife, she faced him ant told him if he made
another move she would kill him. At this he
passed to the door, broke si,clight and en-
deavored to gain access that way, but the
plucky little woman was there, and from II
o'clock until in the morning she kept him out
by pluck and fortitudc. She says she handled
the club and knife vigorously and at last fear
ing daylight he departed.
SUICIDE BY A COLLEGE STUDENT.
Charles Libby. a student at the Maine state
College and IL resident of Orono. committed
from the tall bridge in that town. For some
time Libby had been drinking quite hard. and
this in connection with an infatuation for 3.
handsome young lady in town, is supposed to
have been the cause of suicide. lie spent the
night before his death at the hotel with a party of
students drinking. and the next morning Went
TO his fathers store and deposited his watch
and money and left and was not seen until his
remains We're found in the river. He was the
son of cX-Statc Senator Libby.
HON. L. b. WAsHBURNE'S WILL.
The will of the late Elihu g. Wa>hburne is
probated. The estate is worth $3.50 900. Among
the requests are: To the Unilersalist church
of NorIand>. Livcrnore. Me, 5000; 5000 each
to his nepheW> John and Robert, of IlalloWtil,
Me. $4,000 to the Ncwsboys Home; Congress
sional desk and chair to his son Hampstead
Oxford Palace at Nollands, Lvcrmore, Me. to
his son Pitt: $500 for four years to BERTHE Ilag~
er, son of an old friend: public and private
documents. paintings. relics, etc.. to his son
IIempsteal; 5000, 900 in trust for the benefit of
his sons Pitt and Elhu.
STATE COLLEGE AFFAIRS.
There will he Il meeting of the trustees Of the
State College at Orono. the last of November.
and important business is coming up. The CO.
burn fund of 100000 remains in the estate
having never been paid over. and it has drawn
) per cent. interest since the 1ith of February
last. Thus an income Of $1,000 will accrue to
tIlis anu inc question OF
sition will come up. 1t is proposed to establish
new department, the nature of which has not
been determined. The matter of restocking.
the college farm will also come up and the ;ul-
Visibility of using some of the as aiu,c funds
of the institution for that purpose
IN GENERAL.
The trustees of Oak Grove Seminary have
decided to rebuild on the Old site.
Jacob Stern, the Bangor forger, was rclea.-
cd Inf .t IA.
the State.
A Guide Book to the Megantic, Spider and
upper Dead River Regions. has been issued hv
the Secretary of the club.
The second edition of the Sons of Veterans
Guide written by L. Il. Gould, the present COM
mander of the Maine Division, is soon to be is
sued.
1t is stated by an exchange that operatives in
the sardine factories in Washington county get
good wages. the females earning S14 to SIS per
week and the males sometimes as high as $50.
Ellsworth people, by the e9lict of the UNDER
writers, will have to pay higher Insurance
rates hereafter. having failed TO provide water
works for adequate protection against fire.
The November Century contains an article
on college Composites" with number of IL
Illustrations, among which is a composite pho
tograph of twcnty-cight members of the class
of 81 at Bowdon.
The Maine Pedagogical Society meets in an
nual session in Augusta. December 23-30-3I
Among the speakers will be Senator Patterson
of New Hampshire and Professor Chapman Of
BOwdoin College.
Miss Bradley, a niece of Bishop Nicely of
Portland has won a diploma from the
famous Paris School of Medicine. passing a
brilliant examination and receiving the maxi
mum mark.
Hon. j. H. Manly, chairman of the Republi-
can State committee, has called meeting to be
held at the Augusta House, Thursday evening.
November 10, at . O'Clock. The purpose is or
ganiZation and conference with Republicans
who may be present.
The quarantine against the States Of Massl-
chusetts and New York, which has been in
force for some months. is hereby declared oil,
and there will be 10 restrictions against bring
ing cattle into Maine for milk, beef or breeding
purposes until further notice.
An efficient game warden says the reason for
the large number of bears in Maine this wear is
found in the unusual abundance of deer and
other game in the State, Occasioneu by legisla-
tive protection. He believes they have come
down from Canada. He also looks for the ap-
pearance of wolves in the northern wooded
portion of the State for the same reasons
Hon. Francis Barnes. the able Aroostook
member of the Maine Board of Agriculture, has
been presented with an elegant gift book bear
ing the following inscription. which fully cx-